28.5.10

Two phrases keep going thru my head lately: 'snippets of shiny thoughts', and 'it's not about the clothes.' The second phrase will be in my next post. The first, is the name of Lucy's blog and as you know (see end of previous post) today Snippets is having her first birthday. (Are blogs female? Anyone who's French, can you answer that? Actually.. Le Blog de Betty.. guess blogs are male).

Anyway, this post isn't about Lucy, it's about Shini (Park & Cube). This is Shini's shirt, and it's her Shiny Thought of the Day.

Take one lacy body (in this case, I believe it's Topshop, but lots o' brands are doing it). Add a ribbon or two, criss-crossed, attached with a small box of gold safety pins. Add a few more. Do it - presumably - as a procrastination procedure when you're meant to be studying for finals.

Coincidentally - altho, really, is there such thing as coincidence? Or is it just God working in small ways? - my lovely friend Toni, who was actually a 'real' friend - recently met - before I even knew her blog - has just done a fabulous post ('seeing double') which starts off with the line:

"Inspiration comes mostly from others not from ourself, and anyone who tells you they are never inspired by others is probably not being completely honest with you."

p.s. Oh joy! Pure coincidence: just went to tell Shini her post is up, and saw she's done the definitive post on the Perfect Day. ('Princess March') It looks just like the post I was about to do, only better. Influence out of sequence.

9 comments:

shni's diys are seriously amazing. i loved that when i told her how amazing it was she said, 'oh, anyone could do it' and i was like, 'yah, but not anyone would think to do it'. that's the difference... she has all these amazing diy ideas floating around in her head and the turn out seriously magical.

ok. have also spent my morning being blindly led nilly willy around the internet but clicking on too many links... must get to work now. enjoy the day! please give lucy my love on her blog's birthday! xx

Any internet wanderings that lead you to Caitlin Moran are perfect snippets. She's one lady who probably inspires me more than any for writing amazingly funny and true to life columns which never fall frumpily into 'womens' issues or macho up into politics or economics because she doesn't need to. She's just a real person who writes very well. Even better she's been rocking a grey streak in her hair for far longer then all these up and comers.

what is roadtrip23?

RoadTrip23 is the natural evolution from StreetStyle London, which is still here, and has been since 2009. Because there's more to the world than fashion, and there's more to the world than London. Lovely as London is.

I'll still be posting street style, if something really grabs me, but have expanded into other areas of interest, primarily travel, the arts, culture. Whatever I feel is beautiful or interesting: either man made, or a natural wonder.